[ale] My contribution to Cool tips

[Robert L. Harris]

> Then I tried fsck. Wouldn't work because of the bad superblock. I pored
> over manuals and found -
> Second cool thing: the -b nn switch. This allows you to run fsck on a
> filesystem using the alternate superblock. Hell, I didn't even know I
> had an alternate superblock. Guess I just read right over that part.
> Anyway, it managed to fix hda1 so I was able to not only mount it, but I
> can boot off it too.
> 
> I assume this means I may have HD problems, so I'm in the process of
> backing up (only 2 kinds of data: data you have, and data you haven't
> lost).
> 

I had a similar problem when my machine crashed.  I saw the alt
superblock
option, but how do you determine what the alt super is?  I couldn't find
mine and had to rebuild from scratch.  blech

robert
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